School. (thinking ahead)

So I can only imagine this becoming a huge topic as time goes one but I am curious as to what everyone is doing as far as school? I would like everyone to state why in comments but at the same time I DO want everyone to respect everyone elses opinions. Here's me taking a leap of faith with this one lol.

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By the way I just wanted to add what my child/children will be doing..

I will be having my children go to a public school. I feel like I personally wouldnt be that great of a teacher when it comes to home schooling what so ever. There are some subjects that I have always done well on but a lot I havent. Honestly I really dont know much about home schooling. I do want him going to public school though. I went, my sister and brother went, heck everyone I know personally has went. I want him to get a chance to make a ton of friends, be on sports teams, go through drama, learn from mistakes, and all of that at a cheaper cost for my family.

We are doing public school. We intentionally moved to the town we live in because of the school district & towns plans on development. When the town grows to as big as it will be there will still only be 1 HS. The HS is brand new (right now) and is only using 1/3 of the building because they intentionally built it to grow into it. The district currently has a 12:1 ratio in the HS & plans to only go up to 16:1. The district is one of few in our state that EVERY school is rated "exemplary"

We are in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. If you put your kid in private school here it's a pretty "uppity" thing... Unless you actually live in Dallas ISD or Fort Worth ISD. Other than those two most of the other school districts are okay.

If we lived in New York or Dallas where it is well known the districts are not good I would consider private school. I would never home school. I don't have the patience.

I said public. I brought up private to dh a few months back. I can't remember his response exactly. He either laughed in my face or said something like "do you have any clue how much that costs?" maybe a combination of the two. I am in no way qualified to teach anyone. Ill roll the dice with public school. My brother and I are close in age and went to public. I was a fuck up so that doesn't say much. But, my brother found his inner Asian and got a scholarship to study astrological physics.

Crissy - Lmao I know, but hopefully it doesnt turn out that way. Also I just moved more west of the cities here in Minnesota. Is so much more quiet here in this suburb then the other one I was in. There are not as many people and I love it. If I were to have moved east of the last place I lived (more to the cities), oh yeah I wouldnt trust the public schools at all. The amount of crime to in those school. eek.

Homeschool primarily, but hope to do part time public school for PE, arts and social activities. With a 1:1 teacher/student ratio at home, I should be able to teach the academic subjects in less time. I don't believe youngsters should be sitting in a classroom that many hours in a day. They should be experiencing the world. Plus public schools fail to teach some important subjects, like cooking and other necessary life skills. With kids in school all day, doing homework at nights and weekends, and parents who are just trying to relax from working all day, when's the time to learn these kinds of skills?

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I'm really hoping we'll get lucky and make it into a language immersion charter school. I love the idea of a charter school because they are free public schools but they offer a private high level education.

It depends on where we end up.The plan is to move in the next 3 years and try to find a good school district, but I'm notsure how good they are in the areas we would like to/will be able to buy. If we can't get into a district we like I will not hesitate figuring out how to afford private school.

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Either home or private. Meaning, if MILs employee discount doesn't carry over from the preschool to the K-8, we'll be homeschooling. There's no way we can afford tuition (MIL pays for daycare/preschool at our church center), and we also can't afford any of the better public school districts.